You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
“When we die our argument dies with us. The argument we never articulated well enough, that we were failed by our parents, and the… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
“What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.” — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years. — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations. — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
“You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourself.… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
“According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself.” — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
That’s why you have to write your book right now, if that’s what you want to do. If you wait until you have the… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
“They both knew when it was appropriate to eat and how to give a compliment, and spent a lot of time saying hello and… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
“We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.” — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue. — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
